PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 April 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. A, D. Perkin, secretary tt> the Egmont A. and P. Association, is a visitor to New Plymouth. Private advice has been received that Piifleman C. W. Fair has been admitted to Brockenhurst Hospital suffering from a gunshot wound in the thigh. Messrs. H. J. Okey and W. T. Jennings, M's.P. werp passengers for Wellington by the mail train yesterday morning, in readiness for the opening of the .short session of Parliament to-day. The Rev. F. R. Rawle, curate of ' Mary's Parish, New I'lyiiioutli lias been appointed assistant priest in the parish of St. Michael and All Angels, Christchurch. He expects to leave New Plymouth in JuneNews was received on Friday that Lieut. G- J. Hawkins, who left with the Main Body of the Expeditionary Force, has sustained a compound fracture of the arm, as the result of' a shrapnel wound. Leave of absence was granted to, Mr. A- Morton at yesterday's meeting of the Taranaki County Council, he being absent in Australia on business connected with the dairy produce industry. The New Zealand Methodist Times states that Canon Garland, of Brisbane, late organiser of the Bible-in-Schools league in New Zealand, was the first to celebrate Holy Communion in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre after the British Army entered Jerusalem. Tke Taranaki Education Board desires to intimate that in connection with agricultural instruction, the work is being somewhat delayed owing to the shortage of instructors. A recently ftppointed instructor is expected to take up duties at the end of the present month and another is being advertiscl for. Arrangements have been completed to keep classes gfling and the delay in lectures to farmers will be made good as early as possible.